Commercial
PIA suspends firm.
The Personal Investment Authority has suspended Grosvenor Employee Benefits of Swindon. The interven...
Finding the right tools for the job.
Alternative risk transfer is an area that is growing all the time, yet David Chancellor discovers that recruiting the right staff means looking away from traditional insurance skills.
Exclusive - AIG to open in Belfast.
AIG Europe is to open a new office in Belfast later this year. A spokeswoman for the company confi...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has made Brian Wood director general of its French operation Independent Insur...
Ratings agency predicts turbulence in P&I sector.
The Protection & Indemnity market is heading for stormy waters, according to a new report by rating ...
Beginning of the end?
Mutuals look like a throwback to the past in today's fast-changing, consolidating insurance world. ...
Intech wins contract.
Insurance software specialist Intech Solutions has won a contract to supply Sackville, managing agen...
... a risk manager.
In the second part of our new series, Anthony Gould spent a day with Graeme Lee, risk manager at logistics company Tibbett & Britten to find out what a risk manager gets up to ...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL A couple's weekend break at a hotel ended with them spending seven hours in police cel...
IBM picks Siebel.
IBM has selected e-business specialist Siebel eBusiness Applications on a global basis. Siebel will ...
Halifax to launch insurance business next year
Halifax is to invest £150m in a new Internet-based business providing insurance for homeowners and mo...
Team of the year.
City solicitors Lovells has been named Insurance Team of the Year at the Legal Business awards, held...
Abbey to shake up market
Abbey Legal Protection is to shake up the employment dispute insurance market by cutting premiums on ...
Merger targets named.
United Assurance and Royal & Sun Alliance have been branded as insurance stocks "most likely to bene...
Hill to The Rock.
Warren Hill has exported its small business insurance scheme provided by CGU to Gibraltar. Mick Derb...
Bringing shame on the rest.
The poor reputation of the insurance industry was further damaged by the extraordinary decision of E...
Desperately seeking good company.
Brokers and loss adjusters are trying to develop a more comfortable relationship in what appears to be a growing and robust trend. David Fanning finds out how strategies are being adapted in the quest for reliable relationships.
Legal look at risks.
Law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert will be hosting a seminar examining the issue of risks arising from e...
ABI members not in the cold.
In last week' s issue (Cold-callers in hot water, Post Magazine 3 February, p1), you reported that t...
Cox buys more.
Cox Insurance has strengthened its retail division with the acquisition of West Midlands-based Argen...
Maximising potential.
In his spare time Eastgate Assistance's chief executive Max Carruthers is a sailing addict, and Alex Broad discovers he has plans to make waves in his professional world as well.
No duty of care for loss of gutted building.
Bellefield Computer Services v E Turner & Sons 28 January 2000 Court of Appeal The claimant ...
Ready for take off.
Brendan Lawlor says that firms in the credit and trade finance market should have their staff ready to deal with a boom in the sector.
Claimant fails to beat payment into court.
Burgess v British Steel and another 19 January 2000. Court of Appeal The claimant failed to bea...